4.1 Describe the effect of teasing and bullying on others.
METS-S/NETS-T
NETS-T
1B. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity.
Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
Essential Questions:
How does teasing and bullying affect others?
How are the bystanders affected by bullying?
How are the victims affected by bullying?
How is the bully affected from their behavior?
Objectives:
Students will be given a Filimentality sampler. They will explore the links and respond by writing their responses to the attached questions. Students should respond to three out of five of the links.
Tools and Resources:
Computer Wikipage information: http://rdmmedia.wikispaces.com / Login: drobin03 Password: edu346 filimentality
Paper
Pencil
Jing video: linked in Segment 4 (instructions on how to get to the filimentality through class wikispace)
Rationale:
Student’s need to understand that bullying affects many people. Students should also make the connection that our choices can have a big impact on others well-being. This lesson will expose the many forms of bullying and the different effects it has on others.
Sequence of Activities:
Anticipatory Questions/Activity:
Everyone please take out your writing journals. On the board I have given you two options for today’s journal entry. Please choose one and write in your journals for the next 15 minutes.
My opinion about bullying is because .
Tell about a time when you were affected by bullying.
Body of Lesson Plan: Segment #1
(Artifact: link to real world, website, book, picture, etc.)
Yesterday we talked about using self-control in difficult situations. Today we are going to begin talking about bullying. How many of you think that bullying can be a really difficult situation that requires a lot of self-control?
In recent years, bullying has become a major problem. About 1 in 7 students in kindergarten through grade 12 are victims of bullying. Therefore, I think this is an important topic for us to discuss.
Before we begin, I want each of you to know that our classroom is a safe environment and everyone should feel free and comfortable to participate in our class discussions. We will respect each other’s opinions and we will not judge, make fun of or ridicule anyone’s responses.
Now with that being said…
I would like everyone to lie your head down on your desk with your head buried in your arms and eyes closed for a minute. I am going to ask you a few easy questions about bullying. I want you to consider each question carefully and answer honestly by a show of hands. Here we go.
Teacher will record the number of hands raised in the table such as the one below on the board after each response.
Have you ever been bullied by another child or by an adult?
Have you ever witnessed anyone get bullied?
If you said yes that you have witnessed someone being bullied how often do you notice it?
Put 1 finger up if you see it once a day.
Put 2 fingers up if you see it more than once a day.
Put 3 fingers up if you see it once a week.
Put 4 fingers up if you see it more than once a week.
Put 5 fingers up if don’t see it very often.
Have you ever bullied anyone?
Thank you for your honesty. You many now lift your heads. I have recorded your responses on the board. Let us take a look at the responses together.
Are you surprised by any of the results? Why, or why not?
Segment #2
(Factual information/Vocab
Includes sample feedback loop)
Can someone please tell me how you would define the term bullying?
Student response…..
Thank you for sharing.
Is there anything else we can add to that definition to make it more descriptive?
Allow time for student response.
Very good.
Now that we have come up with our own definition, let’s compare our definition to the definition I found on the website stopbullying.gov.
Stopbullying.gov defines bullying as this.
Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.
Can you see any similarities or differences in the two definitions?
Boys and girls stopbullying.gov is a government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. We know this by looking at the extension .gov at the end of the web address, .gov stands for government. Therefore, we can trust this site as a reliable source of information.
Now that we know the definition of bullying, let’s talk about the many ways in which bullying can occur.
Bullying can be any number of actions such as name calling, teasing or making fun of someone, leaving them out of groups, spreading lies about, making threatening statements, or physically hurting someone by tripping, slapping, pushing or hitting them.
Bullies usually target someone they think won’t stand up for themselves or who won’t tell an adult.
Let me ask you a question.
Who thinks bullying that physically hurts someone is the worst kind of bullying?
Now who thinks that bullying that hurts a person’s feeling or makes someone fearful is the worst kind of bullying.
Actually both forms of bullying are harmful and have negative effects and are unacceptable behaviors.
Bullying affects many people. The victim, the bystanders (someone who witnesses the action occurring), and believe it or not the bully.
Boys and girls how do you think bullying and teasing affects each group of these people?
Raise your hand if you have an idea to share. Bullied student:
Possible answers:
Bullying someone hurts their feelings.
People feel upset, scared, angry, and lonely when they’re bullied.
People who are bullied have a harder time feeling good about their self
They have a hard time doing their best at school and at home.
Some people who are bullied might do dangerous things like bring a gun to school, thinking they can protect themselves or to get revenge
Bystanders:
Some people may feel uncomfortable or upset when they see someone being bullied.
They may not know what to do to stop the bullying and then have feelings of guilt for not doing anything.
Some bystanders my feel conflict if they see their friend bullying someone because they don’t want to choose between their friend and student being bullied. They may feel like they will lose their friend if they confront him/her about their bullying ways.
Bully:
People who bully can get in trouble with adults and even the law for hurting other people
People might be scared of you if you act like a bully and they won’t really like you.
People who bully lack self-control
Bullying someone doesn’t show self-respect or respect for others.
Bullying also affects our families. Parent’s worry for their children if they are struggling in school. Your teachers are affected because we have to help resolve negative situations and it hurts us to see a student being hurt.
Can you think of anyone else that may be affected by bullying?
Are any of you surprised to hear that bullying affects a lot more people than just the victims?
Why are you surprised?
Well as you can see bullying affects many people but the good news is that no one is helpless and can resolve bullying issues. In the next lesson we are going to be discussing healthy way to deal with bullying.
Alright, I would like all eyes up front please. I have created for you a sampling of links on bullying from the internet that I would like you to explore today. After checking out each link you will need to pick out three out of links to respond to.
Each link is to help you learn more about the effects of bullying. Some are personal stories, some are pieces of literature, and some are facts and I even through a game in there for you to do also. However, you can’t choose the game as one of your choices to respond to.
What I would like you to do is carefully consider each question. Your answers should free of grammatical errors and should be well thought out and personal.
Segment #4
(Detailed directions on how to complete activity)
Ok, boys and girls we will be taking turns on the computers throughout the day to complete today’s assignment. In groups of 4, alphabetical order by last name beginning at letter A.
You will work on the assignment independently and will be allowed no more 30 minutes to complete the questions. (set the timer at your computer)
If you finish early please return to your desk and continue quietly working on any other assignment you may need to complete. If you don’t have anything to work on, read.
The filimentality sampler will be linked to our wikispace.
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1B. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity.
Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
How are the bystanders affected by bullying?
How are the victims affected by bullying?
How is the bully affected from their behavior?
filimentality
Paper
Pencil
Jing video: linked in Segment 4 (instructions on how to get to the filimentality through class wikispace)
Segment #1
(Artifact: link to real world, website, book, picture, etc.)
In recent years, bullying has become a major problem. About 1 in 7 students in kindergarten through grade 12 are victims of bullying. Therefore, I think this is an important topic for us to discuss.
Before we begin, I want each of you to know that our classroom is a safe environment and everyone should feel free and comfortable to participate in our class discussions. We will respect each other’s opinions and we will not judge, make fun of or ridicule anyone’s responses.
Now with that being said…
I would like everyone to lie your head down on your desk with your head buried in your arms and eyes closed for a minute. I am going to ask you a few easy questions about bullying. I want you to consider each question carefully and answer honestly by a show of hands. Here we go.
Teacher will record the number of hands raised in the table such as the one below on the board after each response.
- Have you ever been bullied by another child or by an adult?
- Have you ever witnessed anyone get bullied?
- If you said yes that you have witnessed someone being bullied how often do you notice it?
Put 1 finger up if you see it once a day.Put 2 fingers up if you see it more than once a day.
Put 3 fingers up if you see it once a week.
Put 4 fingers up if you see it more than once a week.
Put 5 fingers up if don’t see it very often.
- Have you ever bullied anyone?
Thank you for your honesty. You many now lift your heads. I have recorded your responses on the board. Let us take a look at the responses together.Are you surprised by any of the results? Why, or why not?
(Factual information/Vocab
Includes sample feedback loop)
Student response…..
Thank you for sharing.
Is there anything else we can add to that definition to make it more descriptive?
Allow time for student response.
Very good.
Now that we have come up with our own definition, let’s compare our definition to the definition I found on the website stopbullying.gov.
Stopbullying.gov defines bullying as this.
- Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.
Can you see any similarities or differences in the two definitions?Boys and girls stopbullying.gov is a government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. We know this by looking at the extension .gov at the end of the web address, .gov stands for government. Therefore, we can trust this site as a reliable source of information.
Now that we know the definition of bullying, let’s talk about the many ways in which bullying can occur.
- Bullying can be any number of actions such as name calling, teasing or making fun of someone, leaving them out of groups, spreading lies about, making threatening statements, or physically hurting someone by tripping, slapping, pushing or hitting them.
- Bullies usually target someone they think won’t stand up for themselves or who won’t tell an adult.
Let me ask you a question.- Who thinks bullying that physically hurts someone is the worst kind of bullying?
- Now who thinks that bullying that hurts a person’s feeling or makes someone fearful is the worst kind of bullying.
Actually both forms of bullying are harmful and have negative effects and are unacceptable behaviors.Bullying affects many people. The victim, the bystanders (someone who witnesses the action occurring), and believe it or not the bully.
Boys and girls how do you think bullying and teasing affects each group of these people?
Raise your hand if you have an idea to share.
Bullied student:
Possible answers:
- Bullying someone hurts their feelings.
- People feel upset, scared, angry, and lonely when they’re bullied.
- People who are bullied have a harder time feeling good about their self
- They have a hard time doing their best at school and at home.
- Some people who are bullied might do dangerous things like bring a gun to school, thinking they can protect themselves or to get revenge
Bystanders:- Some people may feel uncomfortable or upset when they see someone being bullied.
- They may not know what to do to stop the bullying and then have feelings of guilt for not doing anything.
- Some bystanders my feel conflict if they see their friend bullying someone because they don’t want to choose between their friend and student being bullied. They may feel like they will lose their friend if they confront him/her about their bullying ways.
Bully:- People who bully can get in trouble with adults and even the law for hurting other people
- People might be scared of you if you act like a bully and they won’t really like you.
- People who bully lack self-control
- Bullying someone doesn’t show self-respect or respect for others.
Bullying also affects our families. Parent’s worry for their children if they are struggling in school. Your teachers are affected because we have to help resolve negative situations and it hurts us to see a student being hurt.Can you think of anyone else that may be affected by bullying?
Are any of you surprised to hear that bullying affects a lot more people than just the victims?
Why are you surprised?
Well as you can see bullying affects many people but the good news is that no one is helpless and can resolve bullying issues. In the next lesson we are going to be discussing healthy way to deal with bullying.
(Includes multiple intelligence strategy:
Hands-on, small groups, reteaching strategy)
Each link is to help you learn more about the effects of bullying. Some are personal stories, some are pieces of literature, and some are facts and I even through a game in there for you to do also. However, you can’t choose the game as one of your choices to respond to.
What I would like you to do is carefully consider each question. Your answers should free of grammatical errors and should be well thought out and personal.
(Detailed directions on how to complete activity)
- Jing Video: How to Open and View Filimentality Sampler
- Ok, boys and girls we will be taking turns on the computers throughout the day to complete today’s assignment. In groups of 4, alphabetical order by last name beginning at letter A.
- You will work on the assignment independently and will be allowed no more 30 minutes to complete the questions. (set the timer at your computer)
- If you finish early please return to your desk and continue quietly working on any other assignment you may need to complete. If you don’t have anything to work on, read.
- The filimentality sampler will be linked to our wikispace.
- You will need to log in to wikispace.
- wikispace
- Once you have logged in you will click on the link that says filimentality sampler.
- filimentality
- Next, you will click on each of the links and explore each of the sites I have provided for you.
- After review the links chose at least three to respond to. You will handwrite the questions and your answers and turn them in to the daily work bin.
Have fun!